New criterion for Checksum

Petr Schindler pschindl at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 13:23:14 UTC 2012


If you have some objection on this one, please, let me know till
tomorrow, otherwise if there are no suggestions I'll make changes.

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:40 +0100, Petr Schindler wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:23 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 07:48 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote:
> > 
> > > OK, so test case should stay in alpha and new criterion should be in
> > > alpha too. I propose to drop the part about embedded checksum (that
> > > would be only additional check) and new criterion should be:
> > > 
> > > "A correct checksum must be published for each official release
> > > image."
> > > 
> > > The second possibility is to have two criteria, first in alpha and
> > > second in beta. In beta, there would be included embedded checksum.
> > > 
> > > I think that first option is better.
> > 
> > Well, I think we probably want to ensure the embedded checksum is
> > correct at final - it would look silly to ship a release where the
> > built-in media check always fails, after all. So I think we may want to
> > have that second criterion at least for final.
> 
> You are right. So beside this alpha criterion I propose new final
> criterion:
> 
> "If there is embedded checksum on ISO media, it must be correct."
> 
> Test case [1] should be mark as Alpha/Final release level.
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Checksums
> 
> > BTW, Petr, can you set your mail client to wrap at 72 characters, as is
> > conventional? Thanks!
> 
> I'm sorry. I thought that Zimbra makes this implicitly, my fault. I
> moved to the Evolution and it seems to work well.
> 
> 
> 




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